Melih Eriten is a professor at the Mechanical Engineering department. He received his master’s degree in applied mathematics and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. His research interests are in multiscale mechanical characterization and modeling of materials and structures, contact mechanics, soft matter mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. He is the author of over 70 journal articles, 3 book chapters and 3 US patents.

Awards

2023 ASME, Burt L. Newkirk Award
2022 WARF, 2022 WARF Innovation Awards (Nominated)
2018 University of Wisconsin-Madison, TeachOnline@UW Fellow
2016 National Science Foundation, NSF CAREER Award
2015 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship
2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison Teaching and Learning Excellence Fellowship
2013 Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Top Referees in 2012.
2012 ASME, ASME Marshall B. Peterson Award
2011 UIUC, Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (MF3)
2011 UIUC, MechSE Departmental Teaching Fellowship
2007 UIUC, Eugene and Lina Abraham Scholarship

Recent publications

Lee, W., & Eriten, M. (2025). A Note on Transients in Rate-dependent Adhesion of Gelatin. Soft Matter, in preparation.
Rice, J., Hernando, D., Volety, S., Lee, W., Eriten, M., & Roldan-Alzate, A. (2025). Characterization of a Pseudo-Tissue Liver Flow Phantom for Use in Magnetic Resonance Elastography Validation Experiments.
Candan, S., Barton, V., Yang, H., LopezCamara, C., Fortugno, P., Wiggers, H., Andrews, J., Notbohm, J., Eriten, M., & Franck, C. (2025). Design of a Simple and Rugged Soft Polydimethylsiloxane-Carbon Nanotube-Graphene-Based Composite Sensor. Advanced Materials Technologies, in press.
Chawla, D., Kazyak, E., Eriten, M., & Henak, C. R. (2025). Influence of applied stress on energy dissipation and crack growth in articular cartilage. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 168 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2025.106997
Yang, H., Kyobeom, K., Yerrapragada, K., Candan, S., Christian, F., & Eriten, M. (2025). Mechanical Characterization of Constrained Soft Materials via Nonlinear Vibrations. Soft Matter, in preparation.
Ku, K., Chowdhury, u., Lee, W., & Eriten, M. (2025). Numerical Analysis of Transients in Viscoelastic Adhesion.
Pradhan, A., Muser, M. H., ... Lee, Wonhyeok,, Eriten, M., ... Pastewka, Lars,, & Jacobs, T. (2025). The Surface-Topography Challenge: A multi-laboratory benchmark study to advance the characterization of topography. Tribology Letters, in press.
Chawla, D., Thao, A., Eriten, M., & Henak, C. R. (2024). Articular Cartilage Fatigue Causes Frequency-Dependent Softening and Crack Extension. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 160.
Yerrapragada, K., Yang, H., & Eriten, M. (2024). Characterization of Drying-Induced Changes in Moduli and Internal Stresses in a Constrained Gel using Laser Vibrometry. Soft Matter, 20(4).
Lee, W., & Eriten, M. (2024). Poroviscoelastic Relaxations and Rate-dependent Adhesion in Gelatin. Soft Matter, 20(23), 4583-4590 https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm00318g

Courses

E M A 599 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
M E 340 - Dynamic Systems (Spring 2025)
M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Spring 2025)
M E 990 - Dissertator Research and Thesis (Spring 2025)
E M A 506 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials I (Fall 2024)
M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Fall 2024)
M E 990 - Dissertator Research and Thesis (Fall 2024)
E M A 303 - Mechanics of Materials (Summer 2024)
M E 306 - Mechanics of Materials (Summer 2024)
M E 440 - Intermediate Vibrations (Summer 2024)
M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Summer 2024)
M E 990 - Dissertator Research and Thesis (Summer 2024)
E M A 303 - Mechanics of Materials (Spring 2024)
M E 306 - Mechanics of Materials (Spring 2024)
M E 753 - Friction, Lubrication and Wear (Spring 2024)
M E 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
M E 990 - Dissertator Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
M E 352 - Interdisciplinary Experiential Design Projects II (Fall 2023)
M E 440 - Intermediate Vibrations (Fall 2023)
M E 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Fall 2023)
M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Fall 2023)
M E 990 - Dissertator Research and Thesis (Fall 2023)
E M A 303 - Mechanics of Materials (Summer 2023)
M E 306 - Mechanics of Materials (Summer 2023)
M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Summer 2023)
M E 990 - Dissertator Research and Thesis (Summer 2023)

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